And in a blink, our baby girl is 7 years old. How is this even possible?!?! She is still our hard working, non-dress wearing, sports girl! She is loving second grade and playing soccer this season. A friend also told us about a basketball clinic with Marion Jones (ex WNBA player and ex olympian) that she's gone to a couple of times. Basketball starts in November and these clinics are great for her ball handling and conditioning. She's by far the youngest participant and works hard to keep up. In the first pic below, Coach Marion had the girls run and Maddie was falling behind -- so she grabbed her hand and ran with her to encourage her not to stop! It's so neat seeing someone so accomplished give back to young athletes like Maddie. She also runs a mean clinic. She is serious about basketball and really makes the girls work hard. Maddie's a little scared each time she goes, but she likes it! (except for the running....she hates the running. ha)
Maddie's birthday fell on a Friday so she got to celebrate it at school. We made cupcakes on Thursday night and she was able to hand out cupcakes to both second grade classes and they sang to her! She decided to have her party after school at the Westlake Athletic Community Center. It's a beautiful facility with a huge gymnasium. The kids played dodge ball and basketball and they all had a great time.
I'm constantly impressed by her work ethic and her kind heart. She is my little helper and never complains when I ask her to help me do things. She is the BEST big sister to Dex and constantly wants to play with and love on him. She prefers to be hanging out with us versus watching TV or playing with electronics and I am so thankful for that. She still does everything in her power to keep up with Jacob ALL. THE. TIME. I just love this little girl and can't believe she's SEVEN!
Exactly 6 weeks after his surgery, Dex had his 6 month check up with the pediatrician, which was actually a week and a half after he officially turned 6 months (we had to wait because he couldn't get his 6 month shots until 6 weeks after surgery). Anyway, the appointment was great and our pediatrician was super pleased with his progress. She even said that many of her 6 month olds aren't sitting up yet so the fact that he had surgery and couldn't be on his tummy for 6 weeks AND that he was sitting up was awesome!! Now that we are 6 weeks post surgery, we can pick him up under the arms and start concentrating more on tummy time and getting that core strength up!!
His 6 month stats:
26.75 inches (44%)
43.2 cm head circumference (37%) 18.4 lbs (59%)
What he's up to at 6 months:
He's sitting up! He loves this new skill and if he's laying flat, he tries very hard to sit up on his own. Those core muscles are definitely working!
He really loves eating solids, except for anything green. Peas, green beans, all of it. If it's green, he gets an awful look on his face when you give it to him and just ends up gagging and spitting it out. It's pretty darn funny.
He loves the teething biscuits which he will hold on his own and suck on. Makes a terrible mess though.
Still loves to grab his feet and suck on his own toes!
He's starting to jump in his exersaucer!
His sleep is still pretty inconsistent. Bedtime is 7 pm and he *usually* wakes up between 4/5 am and we will feed him a bottle and he'll go back to sleep until around 7 am. Every few days though, he'll wake up before 4 am and we have to let him cry and work it out :(
He's on 2 naps now and they are all over the place. Sometimes they are 30 minutes and other times they are 1.5 hours. Wish we could figure out how to make them all 1.5 hours!
He's still having trouble going from his tummy to his back. He can roll on to his tummy pretty easily but getting back over is harder for him.
He loves to blow raspberries!
He follows Jake and Maddie wherever they are.
He's so much better in the car! Especially if the big kids are with us, he usually just watches them in the car and they help entertain him. (thank goodness!)
He's such a happy baby. Always returns your smiles and just has a really great disposition.
We are anxious to see his progress now that we don't have any restrictions with what he can do!! He certainly seems like he wants to MOVE!
